Read article 'Debate sparked on quark stars'
Recent observations of two neutron stars have led to the announcement that a new form of matter might have been found. Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory claim that one of the st...
Read article 'Major upgrade prepares wizard telescopes for a good spell'
The UK’s 217 km MERLIN array of radio telescopes is undergoing a major upgrade. The array already has a resolution equivalent to that of the Hubble Space Telescope. But once the £2.4 millio...
Read article 'CERN prepares to focus on the LHC'
At the March meetings of CERN's governing body, Council, the laboratory's management presented preliminary ideas for absorbing the cost overrun for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project identified l...
Read article 'CP violation enters a new era'
New results show that CP violation in the decays of particles containing heavy quarks is becoming precision physics.
Read article 'Superkamiokande to be rebuilt this year'
Investigations carried out since then have shown a way to prevent such accidents happening again, and rebuilding is now under way.
Read article 'US nuclear scientists chart a new course'
More than a year after being asked to study the opportunities and priorities for US nuclear physics research in the coming decade, the Department of Energy/National Science Foundation Nuclear Science ...
Read article 'ICFA sets up international committee for linear collider project'
At a meeting held in February at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) announced that an international steering committee would be set up t...
Read article 'Datagrid is put to the test'
The European Union funded DataGrid project passed its first-year review at the beginning of March.
Read article 'Spanish synchrotron gets the green light'
The Spanish government gave the green light in March to a project to build a synchrotron light source near Barcelona.
Read article 'CERN receives a special delivery'
The first of eight 25 m coil casings for the ATLAS experiment's barrel toroid magnet system arrived at CERN in March by road from Germany.
